Cardinals - Masquerade (Exclusive Red Vinyl)

• Available February 13th, 2026.
• Ship orders including this title will be held back.

Cardinals announce their much-anticipated debut album, Masquerade. The ten song album was recorded with producer Shrink at RAK Studios, London across the summer. It's a record that is at once grand and intimate, awash with romance and flickers of holy imagery, and most of all, it's an undeniable fulfilment of the innate promise the band have shown since their earliest beginnings.

These are emotionally expansive songs, some simmering with an undercurrent of violence, cynicism or fervent discontent and others gleaming with a bright-eyed vulnerability. A vivid first half contrasts a darker second and crafts a record with a clear A-side and B-side. A nod to the band’s collective love of vinyl, that tonal shift takes its cue from a variety of expected and unexpected influences - from the brittle honesty of folk to the theatrical melodrama of goth-rock. 

Highlights include "I Like You", "Barbed Wire", "Big Empty Heart", and "The Burning Of Cork".

Exclusive RED vinyl produced by Communion Group Ltd in 2026.

TRACKLISTING:

1. She Makes Me Real
2. St. Agnes
3. Masquerade
4. I Like You
5. Over At Last
6. Anhedonia
7. Barbed Wire
8. Big Empty Heart
9. The Burning of Cork
10. As I Breathe